Samuel Devlin loses appeal over explosives conviction

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Samuel Devlin lost his appeal against an explosives conviction at the Court of Appeal on 6 July 2017.

He had been convicted by the Special Criminal Court of possessing explosives in suspicious circumstances and sentenced to six years in prison. The appeal challenged the search warrant, DNA evidence and the finding that he knowingly possessed the explosives. The Court of Appeal rejected those arguments and dismissed the appeal. The judgment concerned 26 metres of detonator cord found at a hotel apartment in Lucan, with PETN identified within the cord.